Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin - Softcover

Beinhart, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560258861 ISBN 13: 9781560258865

Publisher: Nation Books, 2006

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Synopsis:

Everyone in the world knows what Bill Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky, or what happened to Brad and Jennifer, Katie and Tom. These factoids mysteriously capture the world's attention. But there's a flip side to this: fog facts. Fog facts are known but not known, the sort of things that journalists and political junkies know, but somehow the world does not. The "Downing Street Memo" is a fine example. This document revealed that the head of British intelligence had been informed by his Washington counterparts that the White House was cooking the books on the information it was using to justify a war in Iraq. Yet this was not big news in America. Why? In Fog Facts, Larry Beinhart tackles this question and shows how soft-core, public relations-style political lying has been raised to an art form.

About the Author:

Larry Beinhart is an award-winning novelist who lives in Woodstock, New York. He is the author of Wag the Dog and last year's acclaimed novel The Librarian. His op-eds have appeared in the Baltimore Sun, Newsday and the Miami Herald. He was the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nation Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1560258861
• ISBN 13: 9781560258865
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210